Why Do You Come to This MS Blog?

In recent meetings with the National MS Society, I was asked to consider a regular contribution to their new blog platform. I am humbled and, as many of you know, I owe much to the Society and my local chapter for helping me learn to live with my multiple sclerosis. Your answers to the question posed in the title of this post will help me better understand how I can best ‘fit’ into this new platform.

As our community has grown over the past six and a half years of the Life With MS Blog, I have learned that you, our community, are the greatest assets our Everyday Health MS pages have. You always make my posts better and I’ve never gone a day without learning something from you.

I am far from an expert at this stuff. I will, however, admit that we together have become experts!

That is why I come to you.

There will be a great number of regular contributors to this new blog. I’ll likely contribute a monthly piece at a regularly scheduled time. I’d like to have something of a theme, not unlike the one we have for our new “A Yank’s Life With MS Blog” for the MS Society of the United Kingdom. We have some ideas for this, but I always come back to the question: “What can I bring that someone else maybe cannot?” I know there are better writers who blog about MS. I know that there are more in-depth reporters of what’s going on in our world of Multiple Sclerosis. I want this to be fresh and meaningful. That’s where you come in.

I’d say that the one sentiment I read more oft than any other in your comments is, “I thought I was the only one,” or “It’s good to know that I’m not alone.” It makes me feel like we might touch on topics (or at least touch on them in a way) that many do not.

I do not — DO NOT — ask this question in search of praise! I am asking because you are the experts and only you can help me understand how I can best serve this new opportunity.

This could also, like the UK Blog, help grow our caring community with people just like us who want to learn and live and get on with their life with MS as best they can.

Once again, I feel I ask too much of you. But who else can I rely on if not the people who make this a place that has caught the attention of so many?

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Trevis Gleason

Trevis L. Gleason is a food journalist and published author, an award-winning chef and culinary instructor who has taught at institutions such as Cornell University, New England Culinary Institute and...read more